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Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia

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It has been the most influential conflict in my short life. This conflict was and is a long and awful war with many failures and successes. My war began when I was in fifth grade. I had some health problems throughout the school year that I paid little attention to. Later, near the beginning of my sixth grade school year, I was at home when all of a sudden I felt really light headed and my father saw that my face was extremely pale. Within a few days, I was at the doctor’s office with a blood pressure cuff gripping my arm as I sat down, then stood up at a normal speed over and over again. The results of that test, and an electrocardiogram (EKG), showed that I had Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (P.O.T.S.). For me, P.O.T.S. would cause severe headaches, blood pressure drops, dizziness, and lethargy. It would affect not only my academic life, but my social life as well; yet, …show more content…

Once diagnosed, I finally understood the majority of my health problems and why they were happening. The major symptoms that I experienced were headaches and lethargy. My headaches were not labeled migraines, but I think I can imagine how migraines feel with all the headaches I have had. The minor symptoms didn’t show up every day, but certain weeks a certain symptom, especially dizziness, would happen. Around halfway through sixth grade, I was physically unable to go to school, so every week homebound teachers would come to teach me the four main subjects. Now, at that time it had started to affect my social life. With not being able to go to school hindered the chance of seeing my friends at all. Being unable to go outside and play with my friends put a divide between all of us. On top of everything, I lost my confidence, especially when trying to socialize. I had lost all contact with my friends, and neither my friends nor I tried to keep in

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